Strong's Lexicon

H3231

H3231 — יָמַן

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewyamanverbOccurrences: 4TWOT: 872c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3231
Word:	יָמַן
Part of Speech:	verb
Etymology:	a primitive root
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	4
Transliteration:	yaman
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	yaw-man'
Meaning:	1. to be (physically) right (i.e. firm) 2. but used only as denominative from H3225 and transitive, to be right-handed or take the right-hand side
KJV Renderings:	go (turn) to (on, use) the right hand.

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BDB3573

II. [יָמַן] verb denominative

Hiph`il go to or choose the right, use the right hand; — Imperfect 1 singular coh. יְאֵימִ֫נָה Gen 13:10 ( J ) then I will go to the right (opposed to וְאַשְׂמְאִ֫ילָה); 2 masculine plural תַּאֲמִינוּ Isa 30:21, figurative of turning aside from right course of life (|| תַּשְׂמְאִילוּ); Infinitive construct in phrase אִםאִֿשׁ לְהֵמִין וּלְהַשְׂמִיל מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר אֲדֹנִי הַמֶּלֶךְ 2Sam 14:19 it is surely impossible to turn the right or to the left, etc.; Imperative feminine singular הֵימִ֫ינִי Ezek 21:21 go to the right! (opposed to הַשְׂמִ֫ילִי); Participle plural use the right hand: מַיְמִינִים וּמִשְׂמִאלִים בָּאֲבָנִים וּבַחִצִּים בַּקָּ֑שֶׁת 1Chr 12:2 using the right hand and the left hand with stones and with arrows in the bow (i.e. in throwing and shooting).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

ימן (yah-man’)

Ezekiel 21:16

KJV: Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.or on…: Heb. set thyself, take the left hand

EHCC: (21). Go thee one way or other, (either) on

Genesis 13:9

KJV: Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

EHCC: then I will go to the right;

1 Chronicles 12:2

KJV: They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul’s brethren of Benjamin.

EHCC: condd use both the right hand and the left